Category Archives: Media Statement

Too Young to Die: Position Paper on Modernist Icons

SHS has released our Position Paper on the 3 Modernist Icons of Singapore: Pearl Bank Apartments, People’s Park Complex, and Golden Mile Complex. Download the paper here.

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Listing of Bukit Brown in 2014 World Monuments Watch

Singapore Heritage Society Statement on the listing of Bukit Brown in 2014 World Monuments Watch (10 Oct 2013)

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Commentary: Holes in the Heritage Conservation Wall

By Yeo Kang Shua and Terence Chong (First published in TODAY, 11 July 2013 http://www.todayonline.com/commentary/holes-heritage-conservation-wall)

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Commentary: Pulau Ubin and the unsettled Singapore psyche

by Terence Chong and Yeo Kang Shua (First published in Today, 18 April 2013)

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Commentary: Bukit Timah forests, SIT flats worthy of World Heritage status too

by Terence Chong, Yeo Kang Shua and Tan Wee Cheng (First published in Today, 6 April 2013)

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Singapore Heritage Society Press Release: Singapore Botanic Gardens as UNESCO World Heritage Site

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SHS response to announced road alignment at Bukit Brown

The Singapore Heritage Society’s response to the announcement of the aligned road through Bukit Brown….

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SHS Press Release: Position Paper on Bukit Brown published!

4 February 2012 The Singapore Heritage Society (SHS) has published its Position Paper on Bukit Brown.  Please read and forward the paper to all concerned parties. ———— PRESS RELEASE For immediate publication Singapore, 4 February 2012: The Singapore Heritage Society … Continue reading

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SHS Letter to Sunday Times: Nothing concrete in earlier plans for Bukit Brown

Nothing concrete in earlier plans for Bukit Brown (27 November 2011) Last Sunday’s article, ‘Bukit Brown road project ‘can’t wait”, reported that ‘strangely, the URA said, no one raised a ruckus when plans highlighting the area’s intended future use were … Continue reading

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SHS Letter to Straits Times: SHS efforts in Bukit Brown issue thus far (unpublished)

Dear Sir/Madam, In the article “Lively debate over fate of cemetery” (Sunday Times, 20 Nov 2011), it was wrongly reported that an audience member had asked “Why has the Heritage Society stayed so silent on this issue?”. Our video recordings … Continue reading

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